A DAD has won an epic James Bond-style mansion with an infinity pool after paying just £25 (N15,000) for a ticket in a charity draw.
Glen Elmy, 54, is now the proud owner of the £3million home that boasts five double bedrooms, six bathrooms and stunning panoramic views of the ocean from its clifftop location.
The dream house is situated on the North Devon coast within the picturesque Exmoor National Park, just 11 miles from the thriving markets and cosy country pubs of Barnstaple.
The grandfather purchased the lucky ticket back in August as part of a fundraising campaign by Omaze in aid of NSPCC’s Childline - and found out that he won while painting his parents house this week.
Glen said: “I’m totally gobsmacked, the only thing we’ve ever won before was three pounds at a Bingo night on holiday.
“We absolutely love the house, if I could have designed one from scratch, it would look just like this; it’s like something from a Bond film!
“We will be keeping it as there’s no other house like it in the country so why would we want to sell it?!"
All stamp duty and legal fees are covered and Glen has also been given £20,000 in cash to help with running costs.
Glen has been married to wife Debbie, 60, for 21 years and they have five children between them Sam, 22, and Luke, 20, who joined Glen and Debbie on their first visit to the house - as well as Laura, 33, Chris, 32, and Shelly, 29.
The couple have three grandchildren with a fourth on the way from son Sam and his fiancé Emily, 20.
Glen, originally from Suffolk, and Debbie currently live with dog Bailey in their four-bedroom house in Walsall, where they’ve been for the past 26 years.
He works as an Operations Director at Castings PLC in Walsall, and has been at the foundry since he started as an apprentice 33 years ago
He added: “My wife Debbie lost her father to Covid this year and our youngest son was made redundant last week, so winning this house is just what the family needed, it’s life changing for all of us.
“This house is so spectacular we’re going to enjoy our first family holiday for two years right here. I don’t think we’d find a better place anywhere else in the world!”
As well as making its grand prize winner an instant three-times millionaire, the draw has also raised crucial funds for the NSPCC’s Childline, at a time when the service is needed more than ever.
The innovative new partnership with Omaze has provided Childline with a donation of £1,000,000.
The free and confidential helpline for children receives an average of 1.1 million calls, emails and online messages each year – but currently, Childline can only answer two out of every three calls it receives.
Childline Founder and President Dame Esther Rantzen said: “We are extremely grateful to Omaze and all those who have taken part for their fantastic support. Childline saves and transforms the lives of children who desperately need us and this stunning total will be crucial in ensuring that we can continue to reach out to the young people who rely upon us."
James Oakes, SVP International at Omaze said: “We’re thrilled that Glen and his family got to help out a charity that means a lot to them, and are just as delighted that this campaign helped to raise £1,000,000 for NSPCC’s Childline in the process."
This is the fourth house that Omaze has given away since it came to the UK last year - raising £2,750,000 for good causes in the process.
The first Omaze Million Pound House Draw saw Ian Garrick win a million-pound house in Cheshire – that campaign netted Teenage Cancer Trust £250,000, with Omaze committing a minimum of one million pounds to the charity over the next 3 years, all from donations raised in the UK.
The second saw housewife Marilyn Pratt, win a stunning three-million-pound townhouse in London’s leafy Fulham. That campaign raised £1,000,000 for the British Heart Foundation.
The third saw Darren Wordon, an IT consultant from Bath win a stunning £2,500,000 5-bedroom property in the Cotswolds countryside. The campaign raised £500,000 for The Prince’s Trust.
Online entries for the fifth and sixth Omaze Million Pound House Draws are also currently live. The draw for a £3,500,000 grand London house in iconic Wimbledon, raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity closes at midnight on Sunday 21st November.
The draw for a stunning £3,500,000 property just 10 minutes from Ascot racecourse, raising money for Cancer Research UK, closes at midnight on Saturday 22nd January 2022.
Right? There has to be stiffer punishment for female predators. The judge is being bias. Can't even begin to imagine the kind of trauma those poor kids went through.
A PAEDOPHILE, PREDATORY WOMAN who filmed herself performing sex acts in a Tesco for £200 a video has been jailed.
Tiffany Barrett sent the clips to her paedo boyfriend Christopher Shaw, who paid her before sharing them online.
The vile 32-year-old filmed herself in a Tesco changing room and other places where children were present.
Her sickening actions were discovered when an online child sex exploitation investigation team found one of her clips.
They also found Shaw had a horrific stash of extremely graphic child sex abuse images.
Barrett has now been jailed for 16 months after admitting causing a child to witness a sexual act.
She will be made to stay away from activities involving children when she is released and will be placed on the sex offenders register.
Shaw was also jailed for 16 months for making Category A, B and C images of child abuse, possession of extreme pornography and causing a child to witness a sexual act.
Darren Whitehead, prosecuting, told Stoke Crown Court: "Barrett admitted she sent these videos to a man she knew as Chris.
"She states he would ask her to make videos of herself in unusual places, including the changing rooms at Tesco.
"He would pay her via PayPal and he once paid her £40 for a pair of old, dirty socks."
But Barrett's lawyer claimed the ex-drug addict, who had a modelling career at the time, had "no knowledge" the videos would be shared and said her life has "collapsed" as a result.
'PREDATORY'
The court was also told she saw the footage as a "way of making quick money" while she dreamed of joining the army.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Paul Glenn said: "Shaw, you exploited the fact that your co-defendant had a drug addiction.
"Barrett, you claim your cocaine use at the time clouded your judgement. The motivation was financial.
"I'm told you're no longer using drugs. Shaw, you accept you accessed sexual images of children for your own gratification.
"You seem to forget that these are real children being abused and are often damaged for the entertainment of people like you.
Newcastle will top the charts for RICHEST owners in world football once £300m Saudi takeover is complete with their £320 Billion fortune more than 10 times higher than Man City's owners and even dwarfing Qatar-controlled PSG.
Newcastle are set to have the wealthiest owners in world football once the £300million Saudi takeover is signed off.
The purchase of the club by the Saudi-led consortium is expected to be announced imminently after the Gulf state settled its piracy dispute with Premier League broadcast partner beIN Sports and gave assurances over who will control the club.
It will bring an end to Mike Ashley's 14-year ownership of the Magpies, after much protest over the Sports Direct billionaire's time heading the club.
After the deal is completed, Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is expected to own 80 per cent of the club, with Amanda Staveley and the Reuben brothers evenly splitting the remaining 20 per cent.
The original deal, which was abandoned in the summer of 2020 due to the Premier League's objections, would have seen Newcastle chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and governed by Yasir Al-Rumayyan.
Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the PIF, is reportedly still being lined up as the club’s non-executive chairman. Bin Salman's role is surely removed, however, given the Premier League have now received assurances that the state will not be directly involved in the running of the club, and sources say this will see the deal given the green light.
The Toon will be by some way the wealthiest team in world football, with the Saudi PIF boasting assets worth a staggering £320billion, with stakes in companies ranging from SoftBank to Boeing, Facebook and Uber.
This wealth is by some way larger than that of Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour, who had originally been the world's richest football club owner at £23.3bn.
Mansour is the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and comes from the royal family of Abu Dhabi.
But once the Newcastle take over is announced, the Magpies' owners will be worth 10 times more than City's.
Paris Saint-Germain are the only club who can compare with Newcastle under their new ownership. President Nasser Al-Khelaifi's own wealth is reported to be around £6.5bn, but he is just the front man for owners Qatar Sport Investments, an offshoot of Qatar's Investment Authority which is the equivalent of the Saudi PIF.
Qatar's natrional wealth fund holds assets valued around £220bn, including London's iconic The Shard building and luxury retailer Harrods, plus stakes in companies such as Volkswagen and Barclays.
Yet Newcastle's new owners are still worth vastly more than PSG's incredibly rich owners.
A buy-out was abandoned initially last year when the consortium led by Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and including Amanda Staveley and the Reuben brothers were unable to prove separation between themselves and the Saudi state.
The Premier League have now received assurances that the state will not be directly involved in the running of the club and sources say this will see the deal given the green light.
After updates surrounding the takeover, Newcastle fans rushed to social media to express their joy at the news as they now can dream of lucrative signings to help push the club forward.
'Bring back the entertainers. Bring back European nights. BRING BACK MY NEWCASTLE UNITED. #Nufc #nufctakeover,' one excited fan wrote.
Another supporter wrote: 'I'm ready for it all. This takeover feels like the love of your life keep walking out, and coming back promising to change. Yessssssss.'
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has treated himself to a brand new Ferrari to celebrate his 40th birthday.
Ibrahimovic splashed over £400,000 (N250 million) for a Ferrari Sf90 Stradale, which is the model's first ever hybrid-electric car and can offer a top speed up to 211mph.
The legendary striker shared a snap of his lavish new wheels on Instagram with the following caption: "Happy Birthday to Zlatan."
The Sweden international has created quite a tradition as he also got himself a car on his 38th and 39th birthday.
Ibrahimovic also has a Porsche 918 Spyder which first went on sale in 2014.
The model sold out completely a year later to car enthusiasts all over the world and it was the second plug-in hybrid car Porsche ever produced.
Thus, the ex-Juventus and Inter Milan star is looking very slick on the road just like he does on the pitch.
Despite his advanced age, Ibrahimovic is still immensely influential for Milan as he recorded a whopping 17 goals and three assists in 27 matches across all competitions last season.
Each year, our moon moves distinctly, inexorably farther from Earth just a tiny bit, about an inch and a half, a nearly imperceptible change. There is no stopping this slow ebbing, no way to turn back the clock.
The forces of gravity are invisible and unshakable, and no matter what we do or how we feel about them, they will keep nudging the moon along. Over many millions of years, we’ll continue to grow apart.
The moon used to be closer. When it first formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, molded out of rocky debris that had been floating around Earth, the moon orbited 10 times nearer to the planet than it does today. The debris, scientists believe, had come from a collision between Earth and a mysterious Mars-sized object.
Fresh out of the cosmic oven, the moon was hot and molten, glowing red in the night sky. Back then, scientists say, the moon was moving away at a rate of about eight inches per year.
Our planet and its moon were always going to grow apart like this. The gravity of moons, small as they are in comparison, can still tug at their planets, causing the larger worlds to bulge outward a little bit. On an ocean-covered planet like ours, the effect shows up in the shifting tides. The moon pulls at our oceans, but those oceans pull back, making the moon speed up in its orbit. And “if you speed up while orbiting Earth, you are escaping Earth more successfully, so you orbit from a farther distance,” James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist at JAXA, Japan’s space agency, explained.
Scientists refer to this phenomenon as “lunar retreat” a delightful term, as I’d prefer to imagine the moon enjoying itself at a relaxing getaway, bending its rocky body into various yoga poses, rather than slowly ghosting Earth.
Funmi Awelewa, a Yoruba film star, and producer, could not contain her joy when she discovered that Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese football legend was among the list of people who had recently viewed her Instagram Story.
In her recent posts on Instagram, she shared a screen recording of the Instastory post and the list of people who had viewed it.
Among the viewers was the celebrated football star whose Instagram page she proceeded to open, in a bid to prove to fans that he really did view her Instastory.
Five-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League:
⚽ Most goals in history (136) � Most appearances (178) � Most goals in a season (17) � Most goals in knockout stages (67) � Only player to score in 11 straight games � Only player to score in 3 finals
World's richest man, Elon Musk and girlfriend Grimes have reportedly broken up.
In a statement to Page Six, Elon said, “We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms"
“It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in LA. She’s staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room,” he continued.
The artist and the billionaire were together for three years after Elon slid into Grimes' DMs, apparently over their shared sense of humor about AI. The two have sparked breakup rumors before, based on their repeated unfollowing of each other.
Of course, the pair welcomed their first child together, X Æ A-Xii Musk, earlier last year. It seems like Elon is in the background of Grimes' most recent TikTok video, where she's trying to get X to call her "mama" after she revealed he calls her by her real name, "Claire."
Dr Wilson, a high school teacher from Ghana who traveled to Vietnam about three years ago, has caused a stir on social media after boldly stating that coming back to Ghana might not happen anytime soon.
The gentleman, popularly known as Achabu, said this in a caption to a photo he shared of himself with a beautiful foreign lady who covered a part of her face, GH Base reports.
From all indications, Dr Wilson is sending the signal that life is going on very well for him, which is why he may not find any reason to come back to his motherland.
According to Digi Chat, Achabu was a science teacher at the Akuse Methodist Senior High School in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region of Ghana.
He first went viral on social media after sharing amazing transformation photos that were getting many social media users thrilled.
Along with pictures shared, the gentleman indicated that nobody is really ugly except that their living conditions make them look bad.
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